Sunday, June 26, 2011

Service road shoulder is not a rest stop

Maspeth residents are fed up with truckers who use their backyards as an overnight rest stop.

Instead of passing through the neighborhood or finding a legal place to park, resident Manny Caruana said tractor trailers pull onto the shoulder of the Long Island Expressway service road and spend the night.

“I’m right on the block in back of the service road,” he said. “They leave the trucks idling all night long.”

And the large engines produce noise and pollution that irritate homeowners who live just across the street.

“You have the fumes from the expressway — that’s bad enough — but we have to deal with the pollution from the idling trucks as well,” Caruana said. “It’s a major problem. The people who live there have to suffer.”

And drivers pay a price, too, according to another neighbor, Linda Daquaro.

“One time, there were three trucks resting there and they backed up all the way to the service ramp,” she said.

And when the end of the last truck hangs over into the road, cars have to swerve to get by, according to Daquaro.

9 comments:

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The problem is there are really no legal places for these trucks to go sleep/rest whatever, so they try to find spots where they are least likely to be noticed. I'm not saying its right, just that sometimes these truckers are between a rock and a hard place on where to rest or wait.

The rest of the country has free rest stops where truckers get to rest and recreate. Is this another example of NYC being unfriendly to business? Without trucks NYC would starve.Perhaps NYC should set up a rest stop along the LIE. Remember it was built and is maintained with federal funds.

The area is seeing a dramatic increase in tractor trailers parked over-night in the neighborhoods of Maspeth and Elmhurst. To add to this problem, buses of all stripes are being parked on 57 th Avenue oustside our parks. Some house illegals who sleep and eat in these buses.

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